Purification + Clarity

“The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening.”
— RAM DASS

It’s been a weird week. Monday’s Mercury Cazimi seems to have played out very literally for almost everyone I spoke with — which makes sense with Mercury being in very literal Taurus.

Cazimi’s, as expounded in 911+In Honor of Jupiter’s Cazimi, is when a planet goes into “the heart of the sun” — both to join with the king / soul and to be purified of ego based attachments that detract from the planet’s function. Mercury (the Intellect) gets “purified” more than most planets except the Moon (the Mind). Because they are the planets with which we most readily interface with manifest reality, both are prone to the kind of mental and emotional clutter that tend to distract us from being spiritual beings having a human experience.

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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
—JOHN RUSKIN

SAVE THE CAT

Back in 2005, Blake Snyder published one of the definitive books on screenplay structure called Save the Cat (no, that is not an affiliate link — I wish!). The fifteen beats Snyder identifies guide a protagonist from the moment right before they’re called upon to embark on a virtually impossible heroic quest to the moment after the impossible has been achieved and the protagonist and the world forever changed.

Meditating on the closing action of the Taurus North Node/Scorpio South Node eclipses that started on November 19, 2021 and that we’ll see the backside of on October 28, 2023 as well as the opening action of the Aries/Libra eclipses, it struck me like a proverbial lightning bolt — the story of the transiting nodes very much follows Snyder’s framework — with the eclipses serving as the fulcrums of the story line.

This is the perfect time, during the time between eclipses, to do this exercise.

As I write this post, the Sun and Jupiter are about to meet in the sky in what’s called a “cazimi” — a term derived from the Arabic that means “in the heart of the sun”.

The Moon is a planet that I don’t spend a lot of time talking about on print but have found myself devoting whole sessions to helping a client get better clarity on their own; but, with the eclipses just around the corner, it’s time to remedy that.

As the sun claws back its dominion over the sky from the night, so the soul’s voyage moves from the primordial waters of Pisces into the hungry fires of Aries.

Aries compels planets that occupy it to act impulsively, disregarding consequences, believing wholeheartedly, passionately that the courageous action defines them.

What does a person do when a dream that has finally been born into reality must die?

The Sun and Saturn are currently in what’s called “planetary war” in jyotish and combustion (for Saturn) in Western astrology.

Venus brings us eternity in a carefully crafted moment. Venus makes reality a dream and dreams reality.

Jupiter wants you to learn faith and pray and realize that you are subject to forces greater and stronger than your will and desires.

When ruminating on your goals for next year, continually keep in mind: Meaning, Honor, Service & Inspiration.

My eyes are on Jupiter as he slowly rolls towards Aries. We’re in the final halcyon days of a vacation by the sea before knowing the real world lies on the other side of a long, arduous set of plane rides.